Cyberworld Exhibitions of Sound

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Folkways in Wonderland (FiW) is (virtual [world) music], a virtual reality immersive collaborative musical cyberworld, designed for presentation of a selection of 50 geotagged Smithsonian Folkways tracks, built with Open Wonderland, a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Avatars inhabit a giant cylindrical map of the world, in which Smithsonian Folkways tracks are embedded as virtual speakers generating spatialized sound. Users can listen to tracks and browse metadata, as well as communicate via text or voice chat, enjoying preprogrammed tours or navigating the space individually.

FiW requires that Java be installed on your computer.

Click here to launch FiW.


FiW is a collaboration between Professor Michael Cohen and graduate student Rasika Ranaweera at the University of Aizu, Professor Michael Frishkopf and folkwaysAlive! at the University of Alberta, and Smithsonian Folkways at the Smithsonian Institution.

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